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“Pow­ell said Sotomayor is a “gifted” and an “accom­plished woman” with “a judi­cial record that seems to be bal­anced and tries to fol­low the law.” ” Good job Powell.

“Mod­ern­izr does not add miss­ing func­tion­al­ity to browsers; instead, it detects native avail­abil­ity of fea­tures and offers you a way to main­tain a fine level of con­trol over your site regard­less of a browser’s capa­bil­i­ties.” I like it.

“There’s no longer any need in PHP to cre­ate your own reg­u­lar expres­sions to try to val­i­date an email address; sim­ply use filter_var() instead. This is avail­able from PHP 5.2.0.” Didn’t know this was included, but it’s awe­some, not hav­ing to write your own regex for email addresses is so awesome.

“A group of cler­ics in Iran has called Iran’s pres­i­den­tial vote invalid, con­tra­dict­ing offi­cial results. The pro-reform group’s state­ment pits it against the top leg­isla­tive body, which last week for­mally endorsed the re-election of Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad.” That’s interesting.

Let’s write more secure PHP.

Is your company’s app as sim­ple as a Google or Apple prod­uct, why not?

Pretty good list of how to iden­tify the bad PHP software.

“Silence Is The Enemy was started in June 2009 to draw more atten­tion to the sex­u­ally abused around the globe and to encour­age every­one to talk about it and act. We have power and influ­ence in our words, and we’re able to speak for those who can not. We’re ask­ing all of you—bloggers, writ­ers, teach­ers and con­cerned citizens—to use what­ever plat­form you have to call for an end to the rape and abuse of women and girls in Liberia and around the world.”

“And check out her daugh­ter, Piper, play­ing with her flip flops. She’s the same lit­tle fire­cracker who licked her brother’s hair down dur­ing the Repub­li­can National Con­ven­tion. I love that girl’s irre­press­ible quirks.” I totally agree.

“Three weeks after Iran was shaken by its most seri­ous unrest since the 1979 rev­o­lu­tion, the dust seems to have set­tled. Banned and bro­ken up by force, the largely peace­ful, mas­sive protest demon­stra­tions have fiz­zled out. The Guardian Coun­cil — the pow­er­ful, appointed watch­dog body — has for­mally endorsed the re-election of Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad, whose unex­pect­edly large declared mar­gin of vic­tory trig­gered the protests.” Has any­thing changed in Iran since the election.

“Back to the orig­i­nal ques­tion: How dif­fer­ent will the world be if they actu­ally release this thing? Well, Michael Arring­ton will have less money and a hand­ful of geeks will have a $300 slate-netbook that they use a few times before it gets tossed in their gad­get pile because every­thing it does is bet­ter accom­plished with some­thing else.” A dif­fer­ing opin­ion on the Crunchpad.

“The slow query log can be used to find queries that take a long time to exe­cute and are there­fore can­di­dates for opti­miza­tion. How­ever, exam­in­ing a long slow query log can become a dif­fi­cult task. To make this eas­ier, you can process the slow query log using the mysql­dump­slow com­mand to sum­ma­rize the queries that appear in the log or explore the slow_log table entries by means of clas­sic php­MyAd­min web inter­face. There’s also CSV file in the /var/db/mysql/mysql/ direc­tory avail­able for data export and fur­ther manip­u­la­tion.” Find those slow queries.

“UK Prime Min­is­ter Gor­don Brown says new sanc­tions may be imposed on Burma’s regime after it snubbed vis­it­ing UN Sec­re­tary Gen­eral Ban Ki-moon.” I’m pretty sure Burma isn’t going to care much.

“Exit polls in Bul­garia indi­cate the centre-right party led by ex-body guard and Mayor of Sofia Boiko Borisov is head­ing for a sig­nif­i­cant vic­tory. But the BBC’s Europe cor­re­spon­dent says while it will be a remark­able win, it is not enough for GERB to gov­ern alone. Mr Borisov promised to end cor­rup­tion and tackle the eco­nomic down­turn. It has been Bulgaria’s first elec­tion since join­ing the Euro­pean Union two years ago. Last year, Bul­garia lost access to some of its EU funds for fail­ing to deal with graft and organ­ised crime.”

“Aid agen­cies and major world bod­ies are to meet to to seek ways of encour­ag­ing trade by emerg­ing nations dur­ing the eco­nomic down­turn. It will exam­ine how aid — which is used to boost trad­ing in poorer states — can be sus­tained dur­ing a global recession.”

“Twenty-odd years later, I can totally see why most sane peo­ple opt out of the “cre­ative” career option– I can totally see why they stick to some­thing more con­ven­tional, even if it isn’t really all that inter­est­ing to them. It’s NOT because they’re stu­pid, lazy or unimag­i­na­tive. It’s because the alter­na­tive is really, really hard.”

“Ousted Pres­i­dent Manuel Zelaya has left the US on a flight bound for Hon­duras, in a bid to reclaim his post. But the interim gov­ern­ment says it will not allow Mr Zelaya’s plane to land. There are grow­ing fears of vio­lence in the Cen­tral Amer­i­can nation. Mr Zelaya is being accom­pa­nied on the plane by UN Gen­eral Assem­bly Pres­i­dent Miguel D’Escoto Brock­mann and a num­ber of jour­nal­ists. Interim Pres­i­dent Roberto Micheletti, mean­while, has said troops from neigh­bour­ing Nicaragua are mov­ing towards the Hon­duran bor­der.” This should be fun.

“So, there you have it. If you’re using XML and are won­der­ing why the results you’re get­ting are not the same as what the spec­i­fi­ca­tion says you should be get­ting, the answer is sim­ple. Microsoft write their code to fit people’s expec­ta­tions of what the spec­i­fi­ca­tion says rather than what it actu­ally says. I was also a lit­tle taken aback about their asser­tion that most peo­ple con­sider attribute order­ing to be sig­nif­i­cant. When I asked around So, a ques­tion to you all: do any of you con­sider XML attribute order­ing sig­nif­i­cant when com­par­ing doc­u­ments for equal­ity?” Umm no, good job Microsoft.

“Some early data is com­ing in show­ing rel­a­tive mar­ket share and how fast peo­ple are upgrad­ing. If you look at the chart above from Stat­counter, it indi­cates that since March Inter­net Explorer has lost 11.4 per­cent mar­ket share to other browsers. That is the com­bined mar­ket share of IE8, IE7, and IE6. Cer­tainly IE8 (the light blue line) has been grow­ing strong since its release last March, cap­tur­ing 16.7 per­cent of the mar­ket as of July 4. Those strong gains make up for most of the drop in IE7’s mar­ket share from 49.1 per­cent in March to 30.1 per­cent yes­ter­day, indi­cat­ing that Microsoft is doing a good job of get­ting exist­ing IE7 users to upgrade at a steady pace. And in mid-June, IE8 finally sur­passed IE6, which still stub­bornly holds a 7.6 per­cent share. Add those three up, (IE6+IE7+IE8), how­ever, and IE all together holds only a 54.4 per­cent mar­ket share ver­sus the 65.8 per­cent com­bined share in March, 2009.” Awe­some news for web developers.

“But that’s not what Stack­Over­flow is about. Regard­less of what your feel­ings may be on Stack­Over­flow in gen­eral, most vis­i­tors seem to agree that the user expe­ri­ence is smooth, from start to fin­ish. They feel that they’re inter­act­ing with a pol­ished prod­uct. Even if I didn’t know bet­ter, I would guess that very lit­tle of what actu­ally makes Stack­Over­flow a con­tin­u­ing suc­cess has to do with the data­base schema—and hav­ing had a chance to read through StackOverflow’s source code, I know how lit­tle really does. There is a tremen­dous amount of spit and pol­ish that goes into mak­ing a major web­site highly usable. A devel­oper, asked how hard some­thing will be to clone, sim­ply does not think about the pol­ish, because the pol­ish is inci­den­tal to the imple­men­ta­tion.” Awe­some attack essen­tially on devel­op­ers hubris in their abil­ity to recode some­thing from scratch in “no time”.

“This is how @donttrythis and @grantimahara make #Myth­busters (with @voicework, @chris71williams & @evangrimm) ” Myth­busters flow chart.

“I used to go on Franken’s radio show, all ready to be joc­u­lar — and what he wanted to talk about was the arith­metic of Social Secu­rity, or the struc­ture of Medicare Part D. So what will Franken do to the level of Sen­ate dis­course? He’ll raise it.” I have to agree.